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Buckeen. World English Historical Dictionary

Buckeen. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Buckeen Anglo-Irish. [f. BUCK sb.1 2 + -EEN, dim. suffix; cf. squireen.] A young man belonging to the ‘second-rate gentry’ of Ireland, or a younger son of the poorer aristocracy, having no profession, and aping the habits of the wealthier classes.

1 1793.  S. Crumpe, Essay, Empl. People, 181. Those nuisances to every rank of society, denominated bucks and buckeens.

2 1812.  Mar. Edgeworth, Absentee, vii. Squireens … a race of men who have succeeded to the Buckeens.

3 1851.  Thackeray, Eng. Hum., vi. (1858), 320. After College, he … lived for some years the life of a buckeen.

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